Her novel Wide Sargasso Sea creates a life for Bertha, on the background of which her madness is neither surprising nor inevitable.
Jean Rhys proposed a past for Bertha and her husband. Rochester claims that Bertha's lunacy was the sole trigger for the disaster that followed, but the narration reveals hints that suggest other factors may have contributed to the destruction of their marriage. The reader knows -and dreads- her from both Jane's and Rochester's perspective. She is depicted as a mere beast, bent on destroying her husband.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: The Victorian Afterlife, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Bertha Mason in Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre is a character without history or personality.
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